california, after all, was built with the greatest highways, the greatest public parks, the greatest state universities, and that produced everything from silicon valley to hollywood. historically this has been a huge multiplier, so we should look upon it as laying the foundation, as you were saying, for the next generation of growth. >> part of the problem with the stimulus in 2009 is while it was supposed to lay the foundation for the next generation of growth, it was also supposed to provide immediate jobs. a lot of people said much of the stuff in there was too complicated, there was too much red tape or didn't create the jobs. is there a way to do this efficiently, to employ, let's say, a trillion dollars in a way that really builds the things we just talked about efficiently and yet creates jobs? >> there is. remember, the stimulus was one third tax cut, one third went to local governments to stop them from firing schoolteachers and firefighters, and a third of it went to stimulus. that piece actually worked pretty well. the best thing we could do would be to create a national